Installation in Indigo

[Tomofoye]

I installed using sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-mavros ros-indigo-mavros-extras. When I try to build it using catkin_build, I get an error at 83%:

[ 83%] Building CXX object mavros/mavros/CMakeFiles/mavros.dir/src/lib/mavlink_diag.cpp.o make[2]: * No rule to make target /usr/lib/libboost_signals-mt.so', needed by/home/dukerama/catkin_ws/devel/lib/libmavros.so'. Stop. make[2]: * Waiting for unfinished jobs.... [ 85%] Building CXX object mavros/mavros/CMakeFiles/mavros.dir/src/lib/rosconsole_bridge.cpp.o make[1]: * [mavros/mavros/CMakeFiles/mavros.dir/all] Error 2 make: * [all] Error 2 Invoking "make -j4 -l4" failed

Does this have something to do with the boost libraries?

[TSC21]

Yes it is. What versiom of boost are you using and in what Ubuntu version? (If using Ubuntu of course)

[Tomofoye]

I am using Boost version 1.54.0 on ubuntu 14.04,

[vooon]

Why you want source installation?

Installed mavros debs should pull almost all dependencies, but not sure aboud *-dev packages. You should do rosdep step.

https://github.com/mavlink/mavros/tree/master/mavros#source-installation - last command

[Tomofoye]

I used source because it was the only method working so far. When I tried using the wstool method and got to this step: rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro indigo -y

I got an error

ERROR: the following packages/stacks could not have their rosdep keys resolved to system dependencies: mavros_extras: No definition of [python-argparse] for OS version [trusty] libmavconn: Cannot locate rosdep definition for [libconsole-bridge-dev] mavros: No definition of [boost] for OS version [trusty]

[vooon]

Did you inited rosdep? See ros installation steps: a. init as root; b. update as user

[Tomofoye]

After updating rosdep, I was able to perform the step: rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro indigo -y

However when I build the package with catkin_make, I still get the same initial error, here was the output from catkin_make:

[ 0%] [ 0%] [ 0%] Built target diagnostic_msgs_generate_messages_cpp Built target std_msgs_generate_messages_cpp Built target sensor_msgs_generate_messages_cpp [ 0%] [ 0%] Built target sensor_msgs_generate_messages_py Built target std_msgs_generate_messages_py [ 0%] Built target diagnostic_msgs_generate_messages_py [ 0%] Built target diagnostic_msgs_generate_messages_lisp [ 0%] Built target sensor_msgs_generate_messages_lisp [ 0%] Built target std_msgs_generate_messages_lisp [ 3%] Built target mavconn [ 28%] Built target mavros_generate_messages_cpp [ 53%] Built target mavros_generate_messages_lisp [ 80%] Built target mavros_generate_messages_py [ 80%] Built target mavros_generate_messages make[2]: * No rule to make target /usr/lib/libboost_signals-mt.so', needed by/home/dukerama/catkin_ws/devel/lib/libmavros.so'. Stop. make[1]: * [mavros/mavros/CMakeFiles/mavros.dir/all] Error 2 make: *\ [all] Error 2 Invoking "make -j4 -l4" failed

It seems like in my Boost version 1.54, the boost files no longer have the "-mt" in their names. So maybe there is some code in the workstation that is still referring to the old boost nomenclature?

[vooon]

Try to make symlink libboost_signals-mt.so to libboost_signals.so in /usr/lib.

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libboost_signals.so /usr/lib/libboost_signals-mt.so

[Tomofoye]

I just tried that, unfortunately I still get the same error :(

[vooon]

Updates?

[Tomofoye]

For now I just down graded to hydro and I was able to get mavros to work on that. I couldn't get it to work on indigo, let me know if you have anymore suggestions or ideas of what I could try.

[vooon]

You can try Jade, Hydro EOLed.